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		Megaladapis is usually thought to be most closely related to the tiny living sportive lemurs (Lepilemur), which are often placed together in the same family.
		Megaladapis edwardsi was the largest of the three Megaladapis species, with an estimated body weight of more than 75 kg, making it one of the biggest prosimians ever to have evolved – only the giant terrestrial Archaeoindris (c.
		As the three species of Megaladapis were all dependent on forested environments, and would have been tempting targets for hunters due to their large size and slow movements, it is likely that they were all driven to extinction by a combination of hunting and forest destruction for agriculture.
	www.edgeofexistence.org /extinctions/koala_lemur.asp (753 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Megaladapis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Megaladapis, auf Deutsch gelegentlich als Koalalemuren bezeichnet, ist eine Gattung vor rund 500 Jahren ausgestorbener Primaten Madagaskars.
		Megaladapis hat sich wahrscheinlich von Blättern ernährt, welche sie mit den Händen zum Mund führten.
		Megaladapis wird in einer eigenen Familie, Megaladapidae eingeordnet, ihre nächsten Verwandten sind die kleinen, heute noch lebenden Wieselmakis (Lepilemur), die einige Merkmale wie das Fehlen der oberen Schneidezähne teilen und manchmal in die gleiche Familie eingeordnet werden.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Megaladapis (307 words)

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		Megaladapis is the genus of three extinct species of primates that once inhabited the island of Madagascar.
		Megaladapis, unable to adapt to these new environmental changes imposed by man and being a tempting target for hunters, became extinct approximately 500 years ago, around the time of European discovery of Madagascar.
		Bernard Heuvelmans proposed instead that Megaladapis was the basis for the tokandia [2] (in German).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Megaladapis (363 words)

	Tretretretre - Perplex City Wiki
		It is often believed that Malagasy legends of the tretretretre refer to the Megaladapis (an extinct giant lemur), but the details of these tales, notably the "human-like" face of the animal, match the related Palaeopropithecus (extinct) much better
		Megaladapis is the genus of three extinct species of primates that once inhabited the island of Madagascar (link)
		The giant lemur Megaladapis edwardsi was one of the largest of the so-called subfossil lemurs.
	perplexcitywiki.com /wiki/Tretretretre (485 words)

	Megaladapis
		Der Artikel Megaladapis gehört zur Kategorie: Primaten, Ausgestorbenes Säugetier
		Megaladapis edwardsi war die größte Art und ist aus dem südlichen Madagaskar bekannt.
		Megaladapis grandidieri ist aus dem mittleren und nördlichen Teil der Insel belegt.
	www.weblexikon.de /Megaladapis.html (548 words)

	Biologie - Megaladapis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Megaladapis, auf Deutsch gelegentlich als Koalalemuren bezeichnet, ist eine Gattung vor rund 500 Jahren ausgestorbener Primaten Madagaskars.
		Megaladapis hat sich wahrscheinlich von Blättern ernährt, welche sie mit den Händen zum Mund führten.
		Megaladapis wird in einer eigenen Familie, Megaladapidae eingeordnet, ihre nächsten Verwandten sind die kleinen, heute noch lebenden Wieselmakis (Lepilemur), die einige Merkmale wie das Fehlen der oberen Schneidezähne teilen und manchmal in die gleiche Familie eingeordnet werden.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Megaladapis (623 words)

	Megaladapis Information
		Megaladapis is the genus of three extinct species of primates that once inhabited the island of Madagascar.
		Megaladapis, unable to adapt to these new environmental changes imposed by man and being a tempting target for hunters, became extinct approximately 500 years ago, around the time of European discovery of Madagascar.
		It is often believed that Malagasy legends of the tretretretre, an extinct animal, refer to Megaladapis, but the details of these tales, notably the "human-like" face of the animal, match the related Palaeopropithecus much better.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Megaladapis (217 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lepilemur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sportive lemurs are the medium sized primates that make up the Megaladapidae family.
		The family consists of only one extant genus, Lepilemur, as well as the extinct genus Megaladapis.
		They are closely related to the other lemurs and exclusively live on the island of Madagascar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lepilemur (305 words)

	Ancient DNA confirms single origin of Malagasy primates
		Evolutionary analysis of the DNA obtained from the extinct giants reveals that they, like the living lemurs, are descended from a single primate ancestor that colonized Madagascar more than 60 million years ago, Yoder said.
		The biologists extracted DNA from nine subfossil individuals in two of the more bizarre extinct species, Palaeopropithecus and Megaladapis.
		Yoder said the researchers' results support the close relationship of sloth lemurs (Palaeopropithecus) to living indriids, but Megaladapis does not show a sister-group relationship with the living genus Lepilemur.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-06/yu-adc060605.php (410 words)

	DUPC - Division of Fossil Primates
		The distal ends of the femur and humerus of Archaeoindris are in the size rage of the modern gorilla.
		Note how the head and neck in the femur of both Archaeoindris and Palaeopropithecus are oriented in such a way that they are continuous with the long axis of the bone, indicating that these lemurs were suspensory in locomotion.
		The positional behavior of Megaladapis is entirely different and the femur is much closer to the length of the humerus.
	www.fossils.duke.edu /research/madImg.html (310 words)

	Megaladapis edwardsi
		Megaladapis edwardsi had molars that were narrow with well-developed shearing crests (Fleagle, 1988).
		Megaladapis edwardsi was found on the island of Madagascar (Fleagle, 1988).
		Based upon dental morphology this was a folivorous species (Fleagle, 1988).
	members.tripod.com /cacajao/megaladapis_edwardsi.html (226 words)

	Praveen's Research
		To rigorously test the hypothesis that all endemic Malagasy primates constitute a monophyletic group and to determine the evolutionary relationships among living and extinct taxa, we have conducted an ancient DNA analysis of subfossil species.
		A total of nine subfossil individuals from the extinct genera Palaeopropithecus and Megaladapis yielded amplifiable DNA.
		In contrast, Megaladapis does not show a sister-group relationship with the living genus Lepilemur.
	www.schmotzer-agrartechnic.com /praveen/NEW/research_4a.htm (239 words)

	AMNH Bestiary
		The giant lemur Megaladapis edwardsi was one of the largest of the so-called subfossil lemurs.
		It weighed between 100 and 200 pounds and was the size of a small adult human.
		This and related species of Megaladapis are common in subfossil sites along the western shore of Madagascar, as well as the interior.
	www.amnh.org /science/biodiversity/extinction/Resources/Bestiary/Primates.html (574 words)

	madainfo.de - Lemuren von Madagaskar
		Jahrhundert beobachtet), Megaladapis edwardsi, Megaladapis grandidieri (nach dem Achaeoindris die zweitgrößte ausgestorbene Lemurenart) und Megaladapis madagascariensis (subfossile Reste in Südwest- und Nordmadagaskar).
		In den unwegigen dünn besiedelten Gebieten Madagaskars werden auch heute noch immer wieder neue Arten entdeckt.
		Heute geht man davon aus, dass 17 Lemurenarten in den letzten Jahrhunderten und in der Neuzeit, insbesondere durch die massive Vernichtung der Waldflächen, ausgestorben sind.
	www.madainfo.de /lemuren.htm (2918 words)

	MavicaNET - Megaladapis
		Catalogo / Natura / Vita / Animali / Mammiferi / Primati / Sportive Lemurs, or Weasel Lemurs, and Koala Lemurs (Megaladapidae) / Megaladapis
		Megaladapis is known from sites with radiocarbon dates of about 2,350 to 1,035 years ago.
		Humans invaded Madagascar around the middle of this period, probably then moved across the island with flocks of domestic livestock, and also introduced various suids that became feral.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/ita/28517.html (91 words)

	Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today in the world’s museums are exhibited several complete skeletons of Moa, a lot of bones, remains of skin, feathers and eggs.
		Until fifteenth century the largest among recent and extinct lemurs species - Megaladapis - thrived in Madagascar (You may compare the reconstruction of Megaladapis with the dwarf lemur in the showcase "Tropical rain forests").
		A pine-tree may be called an "alive fossil" (its ancestors appeared on the Earth about two hundred million years ago) and it preserved until today almost invariably.
	www.darwin.museum.ru /expos/bio/defengl.htm (449 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Leaping Lemurs!
		Living species vary from the size of mice to that of chimpanzees.
		An extinct species, Megaladapis, was the biggest of all and may have weighed about 440 pounds!
		The most bizarre of all the lemur species living today is certainly the Aye-aye which became the model for the film creation "E.T." The size of a fox, the Aye-aye has a bushy tail, huge bat-like ears, rabbit-like teeth and an elongated skeletal finger.
	www.zeco.com /library/lemurs_l.asp (773 words)

	Ancient DNA from Megaladapis edwardsi (Malagasy Subfossil): Preliminary Results Using Partial Cytochrome b ...
		Among this group, the genus Megaladapis was defined as an ecological analogue to the koala rather than to other primates [1]and is proposed by Schwartz and Tattersall [2]to be the sister taxon of the extant genus Lepilemur, the Megaladapidae family thus containing two subfamilies: the Megaladapinae and the Lepilemurinae.
		[3]suggested grouping Megaladapis with Paleopropithecus (another subfossil), both forming a clade that is basal to all lemuriforms except Daubentonia.
		In their study, Megaladapis appears to belong to an independent lemuriform lineage, rather than forming a clade with Lepilemur, which is in agreement with the classification proposed by Rumpler and Rakotosamimanana [4].
	content.karger.com /ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&ProduktNr=223842&Ausgabe=227680&ArtikelNr=49916 (225 words)

	Megaladapis - Wikipedia
		Megaladapis, auf Deutsch gelegentlich als Koalalemuren bezeichnet, ist eine Gattung vor rund 500 Jahren ausgestorbener Primaten Madagaskars.
		Megaladapis hat sich wahrscheinlich von Blättern ernährt, welche sie mit den Händen zum Mund führten.
		Megaladapis wird in einer eigenen Familie, Megaladapidae eingeordnet, ihre nächsten Verwandten sind die kleinen, heute noch lebenden Wieselmakis (Lepilemur), die einige Merkmale wie das Fehlen der oberen Schneidezähne teilen und manchmal in die gleiche Familie eingeordnet werden.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megaladapis (542 words)

	Thesis abstract
		The sequences determined from a Lepilemuridae sub fossil (Megaladapis edwardsi) are included also in the analysis.
		In this topology one can note that the sub fossil Megaladapis is well associated to the cluster of the Lepilemuridae.
		The use of the method of the ‘linearized trees’ permit, while considering that the separation between Lorisidae and Strepsirhini intervened 62 millions of years ago (that is to say long after that Madagascar separated of the African continent, there are about 150 millions years) the evaluation of the main dates of divergence.
	perso.orange.fr /daniel.montagnon/ResumeAng.htm (1339 words)

	Madagascar -- A World Apart: Eden Evolution
		Megaladapis was an orangutan-sized lemur with teeth very like those of the living sportive lemur (Lepilemur).
		Unlike the Lepilemur, however, Megaladapis had a long muzzle and widely separated eyes --very uncharacteristic of primates!
		Paleontologists believe that it climbed trees like koalas and subsisted almost entirely on a diet of leaves.
	www.pbs.org /edens/madagascar/eden.htm (1327 words)

	reuzenmaki
		For the reconstructie itself I used pictures of the skeleton given to me by Apenheul and made at park "Tsimbazaza" in Antananarivo on Madagascar.I also used pictures of a Megaladqapis skull from the Museum of natural History in Paris.
		To make the model as real as possible I used picture material of animals with similar lifestyle or living relatives supplimented with the results of a study after the way the feet and hands of the Megaladapis where build.
		The study was done by the Department of Anatomical science in New York given to my disposal by Roshna Wunderlich." American journal of physical anthropology 100:115-139(1996)".
	www.manimalworks.com /pagesenglish/sheetsreconstructon/sheetreuzenmaki.html (150 words)

	Afarensis: Saturday Know Your Primate: Megaladapis edwardsi
		Megaladapis edwardsi was folivorous (dental formula was 0:1:3:3 on maxilla and 2:1:3:3 on mandible).
		Megaladapis had long arms relative to its legs, a long trunk and long curved phalanges.
		Megaladapis was a vertical clinger and climber, although on the ground it moved quadrupedally.You may be mentally comparing Megaladapis to a sloth at this point, but a better comparison would be a koala.
	scienceblogs.com /afarensis/2007/02/17/saturday_know_your_primate_meg (951 words)

	CAT.INIST
		New remains of Megaladapis from the caves within the Ankarana Range of northern Madagascar and the cave site of Ankilitelo near Toliara in southwestern Madagascar add considerably to the present sample of pedal remains for this genus.
		The northern specimens belong to the M. madagascariensis/M. grandidieri group in terms of size and morphology, whereas the new southwestern fossils are assigned to M. madagascariensis.
		The foot of Megaladapis is distinctive among primates in numerous features.
	cat.inist.fr /?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1280934 (495 words)

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